Saturday Review - Upstream Colour; The Story of the Jews on BBC 2; new Margaret Atwood book Maddaddam
Download Upstream Colour; The Story of the Jews on BBC 2; new Margaret Atwood book Maddaddam
Simon Schama explores The Story of the Jews, in a big new history strand on BBC 2. Does his personal approach work for this massive subject?
Margaret Atwood's latest novel, Maddaddam, follows a group of survivors after a man-made plague has swept the earth.
In Blue Stockings, Jessica Swale's new play, the year is 1896 and Tess Moffat and her fellow first years are determined to win the right to graduate from Girton College, Cambridge, the first college to admit women.
Upstream Colour, Shane Carruth's new film, is a haunting, enigmatic tale of destiny, free will and mind-controlling bugs.
And Saturday Review asks its guests - this week it's Kathryn Hughes, John Mullen and Dominic Sandbrook - to select just one picture from Tate Britain's permanent collection for a kind of fine art equivalent of A Good Read.
Produced by Anne-Marie Cole.
Published on Friday, 30th August 2013.
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